Section 239: Functions of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has the following functions—

    (a) to prepare for, conduct and supervise—

          (i) elections to the office of President and to Parliament;

          (ii) elections to provincial and metropolitan councils and the governing bodies of

local authorities;

          (iii) elections of members of the National Council of Chiefs established by section

285; and

          (iv) referendums;

and to ensure that those elections and referendums are conducted efficiently, freely,

fairly, transparently and in accordance with the law;

    (b) to supervise elections of the President of the Senate and the Speaker and to ensure that

those elections are conducted efficiently and in accordance with the law;

    (c) to register voters;

    (d) to compile voters’ rolls and registers;

    (e) to ensure the proper custody and maintenance of voters’ rolls and registers;

    (f) to delimit constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries;

    (g) to design, print and distribute ballot papers, approve the form of and procure ballot

boxes, and establish and operate polling centres;

    (h) to conduct and supervise voter education;

          (i) to accredit observers of elections and referendums;

    (j) to give instructions to persons in the employment of the State or of a local authority for

the purpose of ensuring the efficient, free, fair, proper and transparent conduct of any

election or referendum; and

    (k) to receive and consider complaints from the public and to take such action in regard to

the complaints as it considers appropriate.